AC9HH9S04 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

explain the usefulness of primary and secondary sources, and the reliability of the information as evidence

Elaborations

• 1 identifying that the reliability and usefulness of a source depends on the questions asked of it, such as an account having a particular historical perspective and therefore being of use in revealing past prevailing attitudes
• 2 determining the extent to which the accuracy or purpose of a source affects its usefulness

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